Trading/Investing Style

[dmk112]

Just wanted to get a feel for what the prominent style was on the board.

[dmk112]

Well I guess the last option is useless if you can check more than one...oh well sorry about that...now go vote!

[IIC]

Isn't Short and Swing the same thing???

[skiracer]

I've consider myself basically a proponent of the swing trade discipline, but of late the line between swing (2 to 7 days) and short term (2 days to 2/3 wks.) has gotten less specific to the point where I now feel that short term better defines the strategy.

Of late, mainly because of the markets I think, I find myself having to give a number of my positions more room to breathe and move to my target areas. The biggest factor in this is that the money sometimes lays dormant longer in a position and does not provide any capital increase for that longer period of waiting it out.

The whole point or logic behind my short term strategys is to keep the money in action an earning an increasing as quickly as possible with as much non-productive time in a position as possible. It's a subtle thing but I do see a change in my own trading techniques as I've noted above. I wonder if it's the markets of late, me, or a combination of both?

[dmk112]

Isn't Short and Swing the same thing???

Swing is usually a few days, short I would think is atleast a week. (?)